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Re: how much is too much blowby? (video included)
« Reply #25 on: May 12, 2009, 01:05:12 PM »
i will check lowes, i am sad to say but we dont have an ACE and i love that store. How does seafoam help, by burning the oil?

Seafoam like so much of that stuff is a feel good "I did something" additive. If they put a different label on it, we could drink it and live longer. Probably have more regular BMs too.

It's supposed to tighten up loose things, loosen up tight things and make the exhaust smell better.

I use it all the time and love it.  I swear, my garden tractor was smoking so much my wife noticed and she doesn't care a whit for those things. Two doses of Seafoam and its good as new. As far as exhaust emissions, anyway. I swear.
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Re: how much is too much blowby? (video included)
« Reply #26 on: May 12, 2009, 01:07:58 PM »
hahaha thats awesome.... we call that the placebo effect in my field... give a kid a sugar pill and tell them its aspirin and they will swear the pain goes away in like 30 mins

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Re: how much is too much blowby? (video included)
« Reply #27 on: May 12, 2009, 01:09:15 PM »
so your line of work is dosing little kids?   ;D
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Re: how much is too much blowby? (video included)
« Reply #28 on: May 12, 2009, 01:13:17 PM »
hahaha thats awesome.... we call that the placebo effect in my field... give a kid a sugar pill and tell them its aspirin and they will swear the pain goes away in like 30 mins

And if the child no longer complains of pain... it worked.   :D

But...SeaFoam works...I SWEAR!
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Re: how much is too much blowby? (video included)
« Reply #29 on: May 12, 2009, 01:22:34 PM »
haha no, i got my undergraduate degree in athletic training and worked at a highschool for a while. Never did it but i did want to try just buying sugar pills and giving them to kids when they complain and see how well they worked.

MCRider, how often and how much seafoam do you use?

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Re: how much is too much blowby? (video included)
« Reply #30 on: May 12, 2009, 01:26:26 PM »
haha no, i got my undergraduate degree in athletic training and worked at a highschool for a while. Never did it but i did want to try just buying sugar pills and giving them to kids when they complain and see how well they worked.

MCRider, how often and how much seafoam do you use?

Just follow the label instructions. Its like exercizing, I do it whenever I remember to.  :D

Or when I'm feeling guilty i haven't done any maintenence lately.
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Re: how much is too much blowby? (video included)
« Reply #31 on: May 12, 2009, 01:31:53 PM »
haha ok. I guess i need to buy it in bulk then haha

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Re: how much is too much blowby? (video included)
« Reply #32 on: May 12, 2009, 05:31:07 PM »
This is my setup. It might work for you. Its on my 400F.

I was tired of all the moisture mucking up my air intake filter. >:(

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Re: how much is too much blowby? (video included)
« Reply #33 on: May 12, 2009, 06:01:48 PM »
There's nothing wrong with that amount of blow-by from your engine.  They all do about that much mist in the blowby.  If you are unsure of whether you need to do rings, then run a compression test, first dry, then wet.

The filter on the end of the breather tube is just to keep dirt in the air from getting into the oil.  Crankcase goes from pressure to vacuum whenever a piston goes down or up in one of the cylinder bores.  When it goes vacuum, it sucks in air, which if left unfiltered, will introduce airborne contaminants into the oil.

I did see the mist in your video, and I feel that it is perfectly normal.  Even brand-new engines produce some.  Sometimes brand-new engines actually produce MORE blow-by until the rings and bores are broken in.  That's why they all have PCV systems, breather filters in the airbox, or catch cans straight from the factory.

Some systems are more sophisticated than others.  The 77 CB550K airbox accomodates some oil separation which allows the oil to drain back into the crankcase after it separates from the blowby.  My 1986 GoldWing has a simple plastic oil separator/catch can which you must remove and drain whenever you change the oil.  Pretty much all cars use PCV, which sucks the blow-by back into the intake air and burns it, some after allowing the oil to condense out.
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